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Male: Colored like the subspecies yukonensis except that hind coxa 

 is always fulvous and that mesopleurum and metapleurum, meso- 

 sternum, and mesoscutum are usually more or less fulvous. 



Female: Black or blackish. Cheek near base of mandible and 

 clypeus often tinged with brown; mandible brown; labrum stramin- 

 eous; first three segments of palpi white or mostly whitish, the rest 

 infuscate; scape sometimes with stramineous spot in front; lower part 

 of propleurum sometimes partly whitish; tegula and hind corner of 

 pronotum white; mesoscutum, mesopleurum, mesosternum, and 

 metapleurum usually more or less fulvous; front and middle coxae 

 and trochanters white or largely whitish; front and middle legs beyond 

 trochanters pale fulvous, their tarsi brownish fulvous with the apical 

 segment brown to fuscous; hind coxa and first trochanter fulvous; 

 hind second trochanter fulvous or whitish; hind femur fulvous, its 

 apex often wealdy infuscate, its apical margin whitish; hind tibia and 

 tarsus uniformly dark brown. 



Specimens: 9, Workman Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., Apr. 28, 1947, 

 H. and M. Townes (Townes). cT, Bowser, B.C., June 7, 1955, R. 

 Coyles (Ottawa). 2cf, reared from borings of Plectura sinnicauda, 

 Wellington, B.C., May 15, 1945, R. Guppy (Townes). 9, Berkeley, 

 Cahf., Apr. 17, 1929, A. T. McClay (Washington). 9, Berkeley, 

 Cahf., May 25, 1933, M. Cazier (Washington) c^, 39, Gasquet 

 Ranger Station, Cahf., July 23, Aug. 2, and Sept. 14, 1937, R. L. 

 Furniss (Washington). 9, near Glacier Point, Yosemite Park, 

 Cahf., July 19, 1948, H., M., D., G., and J. Townes (Townes). 9, 

 reared from Rhus diversiloba, Glendale, Los Angeles Co., Calif., Apr. 1, 

 1948 (Townes). d", Mill Valley, Marin Co., Calif., Sept. 4, 1957, 

 H. B, Leech (San Francisco). 9, Portola State Park, San Mateo Co., 

 Calif., May 7, 1950, H. B. Leech (San Francisco). 9, Putah Canyon, 

 Solano Co., Calif., Feb. 29, 1936, R. M. Bohart (Townes). d^, San 

 Anselmo, Cahf., Apr. 16, 1922, E. P. Van Duzee (San Francisco). 

 2(^, 59, reared from Cupressus macrocarpa, San Carlos, Calif., Jan. 31, 

 1919, and Mar. 29, 1919, R. D. Hartman and H. E. Burke (Washington 

 and Townes). 9, Eugene, Greg., Nov. 7, 1941 (San Francisco). 



This subspecies ranges from British Columbia to Ai'izona. 



5d. Helcostizus albator canadensis (Provancher), new status 



Mesochorus Canadensis Provancher, 1874, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 0, p. 299; 



9. Type; 9 , Quebec (Quebec). 

 Asternaulax fiskei Viereck, 1912, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. G32; 9. Type: 



9, Tryon, N.C. (Washington). 



Body a little more slender than in the other subspecies; tyloids 

 on male flagellum as in the subspecies yukonensis; propodeum about 

 0.85 as long as wide. 



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